Word: culprit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sandy brown, close-cropped hair parted to the left, brown eyes, chubby cheeks. Only when the FBI took both men into the bank-each dressed in the same clothes he had worn on the day of the attempted holdup-was Eileen Thomas able to identify the culprit: James Anderson...
...most popularly suspected microbes are usually not to blame for the diarrhea that strikes in major tourist centers. His research team based its findings mainly on the experience of travelers to Europe and Mexico, found that amoebae and the most-feared bacteria could be eliminated as suspects. A probable culprit in many cases: microbes of the common genus Staphylococcus, which may multiply in food kept under poor refrigeration and prepared under unsanitary conditions-but this usually has nothing to do with fecal contamination of food and water. In other cases, overeating and consumption of highly spiced or oily foods...
...merely a matter of telling a student to get out: "The Entire college was assembled in hall, the President announced the crime and the Corporation's sentence," and the expelled member's name was formally cut out of a list of the students. Often, however, if the culprit made a public confession, and convinced the Faculty that he had repented, he was reinstated. There are a few instances in which students expelled for fornication or other "atrocious" crimes, were readmitted a year later. One even became a minister...
...fraud. Like Contestant Herb Stempel before him (TIME, Sept. 8), said Snodgrass, he was given answers in advance, was eventually told when to lose gracefully to Research Consultant Hank Bloomgarden (who went on to win $98,500). An employee of the show, said Snodgrass who refused to identify the culprit, coached him in the proper gestures of hesitation in the isolation booth, paid to have his teeth cleaned for the bright TV lights and later begged him not to squeal...
...room chairs (with under-seat cap racks) had not yet arrived; two colonels and two majors knocked their heads together over the problem of where the cadets would place their caps during supper (solution: on extra tables and under chairs). And the Roman Catholic chaplain was hunting for the culprit who installed a pingpong table in his temporary chapel. "It's organized confusion," moaned one light colonel. "And that's the worst kind...